Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

A common problem that companies face is that they bring in technical tools (such as control charts , PDSA improvement cycle , design of experiments , kanban , etc.) Edwards Deming discussed frequently and emphasized in his management system ). without an appreciation for the organization as a system.

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 23, 2016

Creating a culture where it is expected that any improvement ideas are tested and evaluated is one of the most important changes on the path to a company that will be able to continually improve. Faster iteration (of smaller tasks) and going to the gemba are other important points made in the presentation.

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Agility Deming Conference Software 40

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Edwards Deming. He conducts independent performance reviews and Executive Think Tanks nationally… with the result being the companies’ destinies being charted. Juliano Howard T.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Franz McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why the Toyota Way principles can achieve excellence in every part of almost any organization all the time I have read and reviewed all of Jeffrey Liker’s previously published [.]. The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence to Achieve Superior Performance Jeffrey K.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fuji Xerox won the legendary Deming Prize for Total Quality Management even before Xerox, the parent company, got the Malcolm Baldridge Award for quality in the US. In one of the chapters “Building a Process-Focused Organization”, Subroto Bagchi shares a wonderful story that only underlines the importance of process.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Subroto Bagchi’s first best-selling book, The High-Performance Entrepreneur , shared his story of building a company. The concept of inclusion in business started when Quality gurus like Deming asked Americans to drop the ‘product-out’ mentality and instead practice a ‘customer-in’ mindset.

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Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”. Deming opined that everything that is critical for business performance may not be measurable. Well said, Tanmay!

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Deming Quality Blog Directory 158

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Back in 2009, there were just four companies that fit the bill. More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less.

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Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. Decades ago W. One of those was excessive health care costs. Sadly that deadly disease has become much worse in the last several decades. Americans pay 300% more for this prostate cancer drug than much of the rest of the world. was developed at a U.S.

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